Dr. Stanley .I. Ikoro Ebonyi State College Of Education, Ikwo
Abstract.
The study was carried out to determine thee nature of Teacher? Made-test in junior secondary schools, with a view to finding out ways of enhancing quality assurance in its construction and administration. The study adopted a survey research design. A total of 353 respondents made up of junior secondary school teachers, who are heads of departments were used for study. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The instrument for data collection titled ?Quality Assurance in Teacher-made-test (QATMT) questionnaire was developed by the researcher It went through validity and reliability tests, with a reliability co-efficient of 0.81 obtained from the application of Cronbach Alpha procedure. Data were analyzed statistically using the simple mean and standard deviation. A mean value of 2.5 was regarded accepted, and items with mean values of below 2.5 were not accepted. T-test of 0.5 significance level was used to test the hypothesis. Results shows that some junior secondary school teachers exhibit low competence level by not following the correct procedures in the construction of teacher-made-tests. The results also show some hindrance to effective preparation of teacher-made-test which include lack of competent skills, much workload on teachers, and much time consumption in test preparation etc. In view of this results, some recommendations were made, among which are that government should provide relevant standardized test materials with specific guides on test preparation for different subjects. Also legislation should be put in place to use correct test procedure.
Keywords: Test, measurement, quality assurance and sustainable development.
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